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Location of e-mail sender

Mar 30, 2005 1:56AM PST

Found an interesting product:
www.locationmail.com

anyone try this? It tells you where an e-mail was sent from, I assume by doing a lookup on the originating IP?

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Don't get ripped off.
Mar 30, 2005 2:01AM PST

I will not debate or tell why such can't work all the time.

If you want to part with money for a good reason, donate to your local food bank.

Bob

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actually, pretty good...
Apr 2, 2005 2:29AM PST

Bob,

Actually, the product is pretty good---I can say this because I have now tried it. Obviously it is not 100% and the publisher acknowledges that, but there's a whole commercial business around geolocation (like how Google targets ads by location from IP address) and the product uses the same data that Microsoft, Google, et al use.

Mike

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Just a money machine.
Apr 2, 2005 3:11AM PST

Over 1/2 the people who asked for this were trying to determine where the SPAM came from. As spammers purposely spoof such information, this product fails some 99% of the time for finding such information.

As such, be sure you know what you want the product for.

My view on this software is this -> "A waste of time and money."

Bob

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not my usage
Apr 2, 2005 1:54PM PST

I am lucky in that my anti-spam software is so good, I don't get any spam.

I wanted this to tell where clients are writing from, and for that, it's really quite good.

Where did you get that "1/2" statistic from?

Mike

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Worse that 1/2.
Apr 2, 2005 11:59PM PST

The usage model was for persons trying to find out where the spam comes from. Reports (your research) shows SPAM is now over 90% of the email traveling the internet. Since SPAMMERS spoof about 90% of their email, your internet location software has about a 81% chance of failure from the onset.

This is not a worthwhile piece of software and for those that tried it, failed miserably.

Bob